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| author | Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> | 2007-02-13 13:26:21 +0100 |
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| committer | Andi Kleen <andi@basil.nowhere.org> | 2007-02-13 13:26:21 +0100 |
| commit | bbab4f3bb7f528d2b8ccb5de9ae5f6ff3fb29684 (patch) | |
| tree | 141d035b9d79711e6679fadc31c9583f908dfedb /arch/i386/Kconfig | |
| parent | 7ce0bcfd1667736f1293cff845139bbee53186de (diff) | |
[PATCH] i386: vMI timer patches
VMI timer code. It works by taking over the local APIC clock when APIC is
configured, which requires a couple hooks into the APIC code. The backend
timer code could be commonized into the timer infrastructure, but there are
some pieces missing (stolen time, in particular), and the exact semantics of
when to do accounting for NO_IDLE need to be shared between different
hypervisors as well. So for now, VMI timer is a separate module.
[Adrian Bunk: cleanups]
Subject: VMI timer patches
Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/i386/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/i386/Kconfig | 9 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/i386/Kconfig b/arch/i386/Kconfig index a3b3f6ee364..595fb771366 100644 --- a/arch/i386/Kconfig +++ b/arch/i386/Kconfig @@ -1272,3 +1272,12 @@ config X86_TRAMPOLINE config KTIME_SCALAR bool default y + +config NO_IDLE_HZ + bool + depends on PARAVIRT + default y + help + Switches the regular HZ timer off when the system is going idle. + This helps a hypervisor detect that the Linux system is idle, + reducing the overhead of idle systems. |